Quotes about Experience

We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view is far more holistic, regarding faith as a whole-body experience. Sometimes it is, as W.H. Auden described it, 'a matter of choosing what is difficult all one's days as if it were easy.

God's power under us, in us, surging through us, is exactly what turns dependence into unforgettable experiences of completeness.

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

Weakness is hard, but it doesn't have to mean defeat. It's our opportunity to experience God's power firsthand.

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.

None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.

Prayer turns theology into experience.

Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses must be engaged to experience God.

Lord Jesus, cause me to know in my daily experience the glory and sweetness of Thy name, and then teach me how to use it in my prayer, so that I may be a prince prevailing with God.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.